Nintendo DS titles on Wii U Game Pad: Nintendo non-wearable Health Monitors coming in 2016

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Nintendo DS titles on Wii U Game Pad: Nintendo non-wearable Health Monitors coming in 2016

After multiple quarters of slowing Wii U sales, Nintendo intends to get back in to shape. It revealed its plans at a meeting at Tokyo. At the start, it stressed that it will not be releasing its games for Smart Phones and also it will not be ditching its hardware. Instead smart devices will be used to make contact with customers.

Taipei: The Nintendo 3DS will continue to be the driver for the company while it does not expect much profits from Wii U. However, Wii U users are in for a pleasant surprise. Mario Kart 8 will hit the platform sometime in May this year.

Another big plan announced by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata is that the company will soon stream Nintendo DS titles to the Wii U Game Pad through its Virtual Console service after getting the technology behind it completed. Nintendo did not specify which games and when they would be available. Further, the company intends to move on non-wearable health monitors, its president revealed. But the products would not be revealed until late 2014 and they might see a 2016 release.

Nintendo sold some 2.8 mn Wii U consoles during 2013 and hopes to sell some 390,000 more. Since its launch some 5.86 mn Wii U units have been sold. This is poor show compared to 4.2 mn Sony Playstation 4 sold in two months and Microsoft 3 mn X Box Ones. Moreover, the PS4 has not yet released in Japan yet.

The sales figures of 3DS units are much better with the company selling 42.74 mn units of its handheld consoles. At least 11.65 mn of them were sold between April and end of December last year. Of that it sold 2.11 mn 2DS consoles last Christmas alone. There was dramatic drop in Nintendo’s Wii U sales to just 6.25 mn sold since November 2012 until now. However, its 3DS gaming console is doing much better. The number one gaming company has shifted its operating income forecast from a 100 billion yen profit to a loss of 35 bn yen.